All sides making effort on Adams 12 schools’ budget

Recently there have been many reports as to the Adams 12 school district budget practices.

In early March, I attended budget meetings sponsored by the District School Improvement Team, which included presentations by district officials and the Adams 12 teachers union president, and open to the public.

I would like to commend the district and DSIT budget committee for organizing this meeting, which allowed the voices of parents and teachers to be heard. The passion and desire to improve budget practices by both the district and union were clearly evident. Importantly, everyone present was obviously motivated by the best interests of students in Adams 12.

It is unfortunate that such meetings were not included in any recent scandalous reports, when notable efforts are being made on all sides to improve the situation.

Let us all support our teachers, district and students as upcoming budgets are prepared.

Stephanie James, Broomfield

This letter was published in the April 2 edition.

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Serious question from a fairly recent transplant to Colorado: Why do they call it Adams 12? Is there an Adams 11 and Adams 10?

And did they anticipate the “One Adam 12, one Adam 12, 211 in progress, 211 in progress, see the man….” jokes?

ThePyro

I’ve often wondered the same, since there seems to be no rhyme or reason to them. I went to the Colorado Department of Education website – if you click on “About CDE”, then “Brief History of CDE”, there will be a link at the bottom of the page called “History of School District Name Codes”. (I’d post the link, but I’m not that powerful yet.)

It seems to indicate that they were given names based on their locality, then based on a sequential numbering system that I’d bet was based on the line-up of applicants to the State. Combinations, reorganizations and reformations have changed those numbers, apparently…leaving us with the no-rhyme-or-reason system out there today.

I suspect they became Adams 12 long before the TV show…though I’ll ask a reverse question – why didn’t they pad their funding with a copyright infringement case?

peterpi

Thanks for the explanation of Adams 12. I think I’ve also seen an “Adams 5-star” school district mentioned here and there. I went to Denver Public Schools, whose formal name I guess is “Denver Unified Public Schools District 1”.
Good question about copyright. Maybe government agency names can’t be copyrighted?
I’ve never seen EPA (c), for example,
Unlike Disney (c) World (c), or Mc (c) Donald’s (c) Big (c) Mac (c). Yes, McDonald’s claims a copyright on using “Mc” as a prefix, just like Apple claims a copyright on using “i” as a prefix, though Samsung jeers that Apple tries to patent “rectangles with round corners”.
One reason for the cost of electronics products is that electronics manufacturers are all suing the heck out of each other, or threatening the commercial equivalent of “thermonuclear war” against each other.
Sorry for the stream of consciousness

ThePyro

On the school district, they like to call themselves “Adams 12 Five Star Schools”, though I’m unable to unwind what their registered name is with the State. That might be it, but it might not given the variations I’ve seen.

On the copyright thing, up until a few years ago that was the case and still is with most of the Federal government. But there’s been a few cases where “special jurisdictions”, “quasi-governmental entities” and similar bodies have been able to do it. For example, the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) did it years ago under the argument of image control…once they won, a lot of other entities jumped in. That’s crept into the Federal level, where they can now copyright images, documents, program names and other things under certain restrictions.

peterpi

Again, thanks for the info.
Images, symbols, seals, etc., I can see. If companies are going to plaster “FDNY” all over hats and what-not, or “This sweatshirt is the property of the Colorado Dep’t of Corrections, .. ask me how to get in!” (I just thought of that, the DOC is free to market it, LOL) on sports attire, and make money, why shouldn’t the Fire Department of New York City or the Colorado DOC have its fair share of the pie, like sports teams or cola companies would?

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